 | J. Paul Hunter - 1990 - 452 pages
...sense of temporal change in the mellowed, resigned pronouncement, in The Secular Masque of 1700, that " Tis well an Old Age is out, And time to begin a New." Still, Dryden's engagement with the old age was strong, and he would have disliked what the new brought... | |
 | William N. Parker - 1991 - 404 pages
...agricultural history, 1850—1910: a re-examination All, all of a piece throughout: Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars brought nothing about Thy lovers...Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new. — J. Dryden, Chorus from the Secular Masque INTRODUCTION Between 1958 and 1962, an effort was begun... | |
 | Stuart Curran - 1993 - 330 pages
...in the gloomy recognition that "supine felicity" has been the best of man's experiences hitherto: " 'Tis well an old age is out, / And time to begin a new" (Secular Masque, 90—1). many of the leading playwrights were also elevated poets (Dryden, Congreve,... | |
 | Katharine Washburn, John F. Thornton - 1996 - 336 pages
...PART FIVE Private Life Foreword by THE EDITORS All, all of a piece throughout: Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars brought nothing about; Thy lovers...Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new. John Dryden, "The Secular Masque" (1700) BOOK BEGAN with a subway epiphany, a revelation on the F train... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. All, all of a piece throughout: Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars brought nothing about; Thy lovers...'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new. (The Secular Masque) (Alexander's Feast) Dryden was an innovator, leading the move from heroic couplets... | |
 | Wilfrid Mellers - 1997 - 348 pages
...Dryden's life, the laureate wrote off the Restoration with the words The Wars brought nothing about, The Lovers were all untrue; 'Tis well an Old Age is out, And time to begin a New. When Sir Christopher Wren rebuilt St Paul's and much of the City after the Great Fire, he achieved... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - 1997 - 146 pages
...freedom. All, all of a piece throughout: Thy Chase had a Beast in View; Thy Wars hrought nothing ahout; Thy Lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an Old Age is out, And time to hegin a New. • • • • The world's great age hegins anew, The golden years return, The earth... | |
 | Virgil - 1997 - 434 pages
...well be his final work, written in the first year of the eighteenth century, concludes with the lines: 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new. Aeneas seeking the golden bough (engraving of i 654, adapted for the 1697 edition of Dry den) The publisher... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1997 - 372 pages
...in the gloomy recognition that "supine felicity" has been the best of man's experiences hitherto: " Tis well an old age is out, / And time to begin a new" (Secular Masque 9o-91). Given the consistent pattern and the regression of confidence, I think we can... | |
 | Hugh Hood - 1997 - 268 pages
...Movement, sometime round about 1840? We live in AD, not in CE, as some of us profess to believe. " Tis well an old age is out, /And time to begin a new," wrote John Dryden, not very long before his death in 1700, a year that the poet seems to have regarded... | |
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All, all of a piece throughout ; Thy chase had a beast in view : Thy wars brought nothing about ; Thy lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new. 
